Posted on 12/06/2004 3:12:53 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Yes, I do.
And sometimes I'm plagued with doubt sitting in my redoubt.
it is much more fun to refort with someone else.. but sigh..you know how it is..
boy that is one ugly picture (not the dude in middle).. is that you?
are those wild pigs?
What really bugs me is being nonchalant - without ever having had the chance to be chalant. It's enough to make me nonplussed. Or plussed.
you are both much too witty tonight.
thanks for the chuckles along the way..
or is it chicklets that will weigh like tanks?
A life-long city man, tired of the rat race, decided he was going to give up the city life, move to the country, and become a chicken farmer. He found a nice, used chicken farm, which he bought. Turns out that his next door neighbor was also a chicken farmer. The neighbor came for a visit one day and said, "Chicken farming isn't easy. Tell you what. To help you get started, I'll give you 100 chickens."
The new chicken farmer was thrilled. Two weeks later the new neighbor stopped by to see how things were going. The new farmer said, "Not too good. All 100 chickens died."
The neighbor said, "Oh, I can't believe that. I've never had any trouble with my chickens. I'll give you 100 more."
Another two weeks went by, and the neighbor stops in again. The new farmer says, "You're not going to believe this, but the second 100 chickens died too."
Astounded, the neighbor asked, "what went wrong? What did you do to them?"
Well, says the new farmer, "I'm not sure whether I'm planting them too deep or not far apart enough."
You win!
Good Morning All.
I just have to say how impressed I am with those 3 jurors. Even the one with that fake funny hair is not going to take anything off anybody. Last night she said, "I don't second guess myself". I guess you'd have to have a lot of self confidence to have hair like that at her age.
During the press conference I got the distinct impression that these guys thought the press were a bunch of nincompoops.
They've been required by law to keep all their thoughts and opinions to themselves thruout this case. Now the press wants to ask stoopit questions.
I thought the 2 men were more thoughtful than Strawberry Shortcake and gave deeper, more meaningful answers.
I agree: the ultimate "anti-OJ-jury" jury.
(Sometimes lately I feel like time is going backwards.)
Heheh - no, that's a neighbor's friend on his south Texas hunting ranch. And, yes, those are feral hogs that are helping "re-wild" our country. (Along with deer, coyotes, wolves, and everything else known to mankind.)
Buy a weapon, folks, and go hunting. Just shoot something.
These thoughts are from the guy who has put up the site Terrific Music .
I believe that everyone everywhere must, when considering today's world and its music, agree that the music of the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s was the best that man had to offer. It is, in my opinion, music that determines social outcome. Is it coincidental that love flourished in our society during that period? Love flouished because love was in the air waves, love was everywhere. Today, music depicting violence and dissension are in the air waves and, as a consequence, violence and dissension now flourish. Music bears great significance in any society. Music could easily be a tool of influence and propaganda. I believe that the chicken came before the egg and that the egg is the reflection.
The path we walk is both wondrous and fleeting. Cast your light upon the darkness and, in unity, the veil of fear will ascend.
Something for us to think about.
I'm happy to report my computer is whizzing along! Thanks for all the tips and encouragement along the way. I've been working on (stressing over) this for a week and last night a lot of things gelled.
Ever since someone first showed me how to check my unused disk space 3 yrs ago, I've never had more than a tiny sliver of available space on my system. A warning about running out of disk space was the first sign of my problem. After last night I now actually have more UNused space than used! I freed up almost 4 GB of disk space!
The biggest element was unrelated to viruses. It had to do with old email cache files in Outlook Express, which I stopped using 2 years ago. Also Windows temp files (not Temp Internet Files). Maybe I'm the only person on earth who didn't know how to "compact" old Outlook files or clean up those temp files. But the last week of reading geeky websites paid off when I came across those two actions.
I also downloaded an excellent AdWare program at
adwarefilter.com
Recommended by my "geeky" out of town nephew in law.
They try to sell it to you, but decline to buy and a window will pop up saying you have a free trial period (60 days, I think). Nephew said after the trial period they'll ask you to buy it for $30. When you decline, it will say "How 'bout 99 cents?!". LOL! He spent the pennies.
It found some nasty hijackers my other programs hadn't deleted.
Anyway, I'm happy as a clam this morning, feeling pretty proud of myself. I've gotten enough confidence now to actually go in and delete a lot of extraneous stuff in my start up and program files without crashing. If any of you need any details, let me know and I'll gladly share.
CD's currently ready and waiting in my car: Beach Boy's All time Hits; Rightous Brothers; Jan & Dean, and the Manheim SteamRoller.
I had the Beatles in there, too. But it got to be annoying. Especially the 70's stuff. I've taken it out of the rotation. When Christmas is over I'll stick Billy Joel back in there.
Nice mix.
After my free three month XM satellite radio went away, and I decided not to spent the ten bones a month subscription fee, they called up six months after the truck purchase and asked, "Would you pay sixty dollars a year for the service?"
That sounded OK.
IA cheers up there.
do you provide addresses? Michael Moore's first please?
I'm about to shoot this computer. I was out late last night covering a contentious local meeting about smoking regulations, drove home over icy, slick roads, wrote a massive news story and emailed it to the editor - only to find out this morning that it didn't get to him. So I checked my "sent" file, and there's nothing there! Not only that, the story's missing from my word processing files. In sum, I've lost nearly four hours' work. I cannot stomach the thought of trying to recreate it, either.
Acckkk! That IS stomach-churning! I've never had anything like that happen. Have you done a system search for it? Maybe it got "hidden" somehow.
I'm pretty sure I screwed up the word processing file, but I can't figure why the entire message disappeared from my email sent file.
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